Nobody asked me.

It seems to suggest that over 50s are presumed to be far more likely to vote than those under, and predominate in 'likely voters' used in other polls.

On the technology front, younger voters generally don't have landlines, and a whole lot of the polls are 80% or more landline. Also, younger voters generally will not answer a call from a number they don't recognize. So they are not likely to pick up when a pollster calls their cell phone.

And some of the "likely voter" screens are pretty absurd. In a decent number of them, the voter has to have voted in the last contested presidential primary...which means 2008. So they throw out everyone under 26. And there wasn't exactly an exciting presidential primary in 2012, which causes too many voters to get tossed even when the screen doesn't go back to 2008.

It's been known for some time that polling has been getting more and more inaccurate due to a worse and worse sample. In a few months, we'll see just how bad it is this time around.

And reminding everyone that "the kids" are who put Obama in office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008#Voter_demographics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012#Voter_demographics

The meme that vast swaths of disappointed youths stayed home in 2012 because Obama sold them out is incorrect.

Thank you for killing that meme.

Make up your mind.

And those who were disappointed in his admin are certainly not going to come out for Hillary.

Now they do.

female Democrat is voting for Sanders.

Of course, I'll never be included in a poll since I don't have a land line, and all but family/friend calls on my cell phone go straight to voice mail.

NT

that affect whether or not I'd ever be included. When I'm billed by the minute, I don't spend my minutes on anonymous calls. If I don't know the caller, they go to voice mail, and if it's important, they'll leave a message and I'll call back.

Just an fyi.

The human brain has less than infinity possible connections, so infinity can never be achieved.

Ask this old fart....

and in my local community most all "older than 50 farts" .... do as well

Just kidding.

Cheers

Don't underestimate him or us. We're out here and we vote.

and my wife is 48, we are voting for Bernie. BTW I do have a landline but never answer the phone if I don't recognize the number. IMO most people do the same, well those who have caller ID that is.

demographics favor Hillary a little. I'm seeing it in a number of the polls. I'm using an average of the 2008 & 2012 age demographics.

If you extrapolate to try to adjust for it, Clinton falls from +26 to +20.2 so I'm not whining about peanuts.

The weird thing is that I seem to be seeing this in a lot of polls - a pattern. Don't know why as they should know more about this stuff than me. ??

I don't know any Hillary supporters ...all are for Bernie

It is highly relevant to this discussion.

Thanks,
Management.

and voting for bernie at age 41.

nice to see 30-49 also considered good group for Bernie.

I'm 69 and Feeling the Bern. I cannot fathom that the Boomers would not support Bernie. They know the truth when they see it. I think this poll is wrong.

the ones that reliability come out to vote.

since 1984, or a primary vote since 1992.

Oh, to be 50 again. What's funny is that the pro-Hillary NYTimes tried, early in his candidacy, to describe his supporters as old hippie types and, in their exceedingly scant coverage of him, always showed him surrounded by earthy looking gray-haired folks. Ol' has-been Bernie. Never saw a photo of his tens of thousands of cheering millennials.

Corporate America, Hillary America, watch out: the future belongs to Bernie Sanders' ideas.

that the latest HRC campaign anti-Bernie tactic is to pretend she's already won the primary and is now up against the Republicans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/24/us/politics/hillary-clinton-looks-past-primaries-in-strategy-to-defeat-bernie-sanders.html

Interestingly, this dovetails quiet well with her DU supporters' tactic of emphasizing her ratings and making comments to the effect that "it's all over."

If no one else has done an OP on this, you might want to.